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A COMPARISON BETWEEN DULCE ET DECORUM EST AND PRO PATRIA The First World War was the first truly modern war. Its atrocities and huge death toll changed people's views of war drastically. Pro patria, by Owen Seaman and Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen are both war poems written around the time of the First World War, and as such share certain surface properties. However, the two poems differ hugely in their implicit meaning and intentions, giving the two poems many subtle differences between their texts. Both poems use metaphor. Seaman uses metaphor when mentioning the "brute sword" and soldiers using "storied 'scutcheons", a blaringly inaccurate image to conjure up the idea of chivalry and knights in shining armor, giving that the fighting would be fair and glorious, as opposed to the mass slaughter and unimaginable tortures spelled out in Owen's Dulce et Decorum est. seaman also makes use of anthropomorphisation,...

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